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| chine [ chīn ] |
noun (plural chines) |
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1. food joint of meat: a cut of meat that includes part of the backbone
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2. nautical bottom corner of a boat: the join between the bottom and sides of some boats, especially those with a flat or V-shaped bottom
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transitive verb (past and past participle chined, present participle chin·ing, 3rd person present singular chines) |
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cut meat from backbone: to cut meat along or across the backbone of a carcass
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| [14th century. < Old French eschine< Germanic ancestor of shin1 + Latin spina "spine"] |
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